The Design of Evolution
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The Design of Evolution
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2007-08-15 19:15.
Source:First Things, Number 156, p.9 (2005)ISBN:10475141URL:http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=904924211&Fmt=7&clientId=65345&RQT=309&VName=PQDKeywords:Science; Evolution; Theology; Catholicism; ConflictAbstract:Catholic theologians never argued with the idea that plants and animals are the result of a long process of evolution, but they were more hesitant with respect to the origin of the human race, as the human soul being spiritual, could not be merely the result of any material process. But things changed when Pope John Paul II acknowledged in 1996 that the theory of evolution is now recognized as "more than a hypothesis." In this light, Barr comments on the backlash given by cardinal Christoph Schonborn at neo-Darwinism, brushing off the 1996 statement of the late pope as "vague and unimportant." |